This time of year it’s not uncommon to wake up and find that the vineyards have disappeared. They are hidden in dense morning mist. Just like in this photo here.
I can almost see some of the trees. I can see the nearest vineyard but I know there are several others beyond this one. I can’t see the next village.
The fog brings the horizon much closer. I can only see what is close to me. I’m reminded of a passage by the late, great John O’Donohue –
Today the light is very low so the fog is covering the mountains. When the fog is there, half of them are missing. But, in some sense, that is the duty of the imagination: to help us connect with that which is invisible but is actually very close.
What a great reminder that we need our imagination to “help us connect with that which is invisible but is actually very close”.
How do we see the invisible? Well, Saint-Exupery told us
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